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Ariana and Kam Air to Merge
Ariana Afghan Airlines will merge with the privately-owned Afghan airline Kam Air, airline officials said Saturday, although the final agreement has not been inked. Read more...
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Border Commander Rejects Reports of Pakistan in Afghan Territory
Afghan Border Police on Saturday rejected reports that Pakistani military forces' had entered Afghan territory in the region of Spin Boldak.Spin Boldak District Commission officials and local...
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Afghan Carpet Producers Seek Educational Institute
Afghan Carpet Producers and Exporters Association is seeking to set up an educational institute of carpet weaving to maintain the high level of skill required for the industry to thrive, the...
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Ariana and Kam Air to Merge
Ariana Afghan Airlines will merge with the privately-owned Afghan airline Kam Air, airline officials said Saturday, although the final agreement has not been inked. Read more...
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Algerian Hostage Crisis Ends in Bloodshed
Algerian troops on Saturday stormed a remote gas plant to end a hostage crisis that killed 23 foreigners and Algerians, seven of them executed by their Islamist captors in a final military assault....
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Parliament Approves 2013 Budget
Afghanistan's parliament on Sunday approved the budget for next year only four days after the majority of lawmakers voted against it. Read more...
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KANKASH: Pakistan to Release All Afghan Taliban Prisoners
Pakistani foreign officials on Friday said Islamabad plans to release all Afghan Taliban prisoners still in its detention, including the group's former second-in-command Mullah Baradar. To watch the...
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10 Taliban Insurgents Killed in Afghan Operations
At least ten Taliban insurgents have been killed in joint Afghan and coalition security force operations in the past 24 hours, the Afghan Ministry of Interior (MOI) said Sunday. Ten other Taliban...
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Kankor's Top Scorers to Receive Foreign Scholarships: Obaid
The Afghan Ministry of Higher Education (MoHE) said the top scorers in Afghanistan's universities entrance exam (Kankor) will be given foreign scholarships as 10,000 school graduates in Kabul sat the...
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British Fears for Pakistan Linked to Nuclear Weapons: Analyst
British officials fear an unstable Pakistan because of the higher possibility that the Pakistani Taliban could gain access to nuclear weapons, Afghan political analyst Edrees Rahmani said Sunday. "War...
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TOLOnews 20 January 2013
Top news in this Bulletin: Several warlords and powerful figures stand accused of embezzlement and land grabbing in northern Balkh Province by the High Office of Oversight and Anti Corruption (HOO)....
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Taliban Eager to Negotiate, Peace Meeting Attendees Say
The Taliban are interested in negotiating and renouncing violence after 2014, Afghan politicians attending the Dubai Peace Meeting said Sunday. Speaking to TOLOnews, the National Front spokesman Sayed...
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ANP Elite Launches More Than 2000 Operations in Year
The Afghan National Police's elite Crisis Response Unit (CRU) carried out more than 2000 anti-insurgent operations in the past year, the unit chief said Sunday. CRU head Gen. Sayed Mohammad Roshandel...
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Northern Leaders Accused of Embezzlement, Land Grabbing
Powerful figures in Afghanistan's northern Balkh province have been named for embezzlement and land grabbing in documents now with the High Office of Oversight and Anti-Corruption (HOO). HOO head...
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Cement Factories to Return to Tender: Mines Ministry
The management of three cement factories in Afghanistan will be put out to tender by the end of March, the Ministry of Mines said Sunday. Included in the three is the Herat Cement Factory which was...
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Taliban Launch Suicide Attack in West Kabul
Explosions and gunfire have been heard in Kabul early Monday morning as insurgents launched the second attack against a government facility in the capital city in a week. Read more...
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Pakistan to Probe Death of Ashraf Investigator
The Pakistani government has appointed a retired judge to probe the death of an officer who was investigating corruption allegations against Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf. Kamran Faisal was found...
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Al-Qaeda Group Claims Wave of Iraq Attacks
Al-Qaeda's front group in Iraq has claimed a wave of violence in the past week that killed at least 88 people, including a Sunni MP who was assassinated by a suicide bomber, a statement said. Read...
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Baghlan Detains 30 Smugglers, Insurgents in a Month
Over thirty people were detained during the past month in northern Baghlan province, local security officials said Monday. Provincial police chief Assadullah Shirzad said that those who have been...
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Isaf Suspends Detainee Transfers After Torture Report
Isaf has suspended the transfer of detainees to Afghan detention facilities after the United Nations Afghanistan Assistance Mission (Unama) released a report revealing systemic torture and...
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